Nancy's Blog

Shannon and I did our usual 8 mile bike ride.  Then I ate breakfast, did my indexing and then Duke and I went to Leslie's to run.  We did our usual 3 miles course.  I ran it 3 minutes faster and wasn't as dead as usual.  Maybe it was the leftover Birthday Cake I ate for breakfast that made me run faster.

Duke and I met the group at the trail head on 98th.  Cheris, Michelle and I got there early and ran south for a couple of minutes while we waited for the others to get there.  We everyone arrived we decided to go north on the trail because they had it opened to 90th south.  We headed south and of course Duke had to stop at every bush so we were way behind.  We kept going and got to the Golf Course.  We couldn't see the others so we ran all the way around the Golf Course and then headed back on the trail.  We got to the parking lot at 98th and filled my water bottle and turned around and headed south again.  We we got to where the trail use to end we saw the others coming and turned around.  Then we headed south past the parking lot and kept going almost to 106th and turned around and headed back.  I'm not sure how far I went but with Duke stopping so much I am just counting it as 5.  Then I came home and called Leslie and woke her up.  Then I rode my bike to her house and we did our usual 5 mile course and then I rode back home.  I got a good workout.  Now I need to shampoo my couches in the frontroom and then the carpet.

I called Leslie at 6am and headed to her house for our run.  She is leaving on Saturday and does not have time for a long run before she leaves.  We started off slow and steady and kept going to mile 4 and then we ate some hot tamalees and walked for 20 seconds and then turned around and headed back.  We were slow and steady the rest of the way and stopped twice more to eat hot tamalees.  We were 15 minutes faster than the 8 mile run on Saturday.  I think it was because I didn't bike before we ran and also because we went early and it wasn't as hot or muggy.  Also I prayed that I would be able to make it and I'm sure that helped too.

I somehow got confused and put Thursday's report on Wednesday and then didn't report Wednesday.  On Wednesday I rode bikes with Shannon and we did our usual 8 mile course and then I went to Leslie's and rode with her.

Shannon and I rode our 10 mile course out to Bluffdale and back.

Shannon and I rode our 15 mile course.  We met up with my running group when we were riding down the S curve.  We also me up with a Bluffdale race when we were going west on 144th.  We only saw one runner who was the leader of the 10K, his name was Ryan and he taught the Tri class that I took at Marv's a few years back.  We had a good ride and then duke and I hopped in the car and headed to Leslie's.  We did a quick 3 mile run with her.  She is leaving this morning to go with her Boyfriend to his family outing in North Carolina.